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We have decided to host extra parkruns on both Christmas and New Year's Day. Both will start at 9am but can only go ahead subject to having enough volunteers. We will operate with a skeleton team but will need all the core (RD, timekeeper, finish token, barcode scanner) positions to be filled with a couple of marshals. Millom are hosting their NY Days event at 10:30am so great opportunity to go for a double if you feel up to the challenge.

Just to let you know that Barrow will be having extra runs on both Christmas Day and New Years Day. Christmas Day run will start at the normal time 9am and New Year will be slightly later with 10am start. We do need volunteers to make these extra runs happen so if you can help out let Donna know by emailing her at barrowhelpers@parkrun.com.

Just wanted to let all runners now that we will be hosting runs on both Christmas and New Years Day. Our Christmas day run will start at 9am and New Years Day at 10am. We will still need volunteers to make both of these days happen although we will operate with a skeleton team. The cafe wont be open so please bring cakes and warm drinks if you want refreshments afterwards.

we have decided to hold parkruns on both Christmas Day and New Years day which i am sure will delight many of you regular runners or those who want to feel less guilty about the calorie consumption over the festive period. Christmas Day starts at the regular 9am time and New Years Day is slightly later at 10am. Remember both events need volunteers so please help out if you can although we are likely to operate on a minimal number.

Gavin Smith has been selected as the July parkrunner of the month - well done!

In July he achieved four new Pbs, knocking off 3 mins and 50 seconds of his month's time and in his 12 runs to date he has reduced his time by 6 mins. Keep up the great work Gavin and we look forward to seeing your new trainers shortly.

As always we'd like to thank Sweatshop for their generosity, the prize is a new pair of trainers, to be fitted at a local sweatshop or ordered online if he can't make it.

The winner is chosen by the event directors or members of the committee designated by them. The successful candidates are often chosen for their perseverance, number of PBs in one month, total number of runs and improvement overall. However, we can award the prize for other reasons at our discretion. If you know someone who has overcome adversity, personal illness or is deserving in any other way, please let us know by emailing barrowoffice@parkrun.com

We are pleased to announce junior runner Kathryn Bell as the Sweatshop Prize Winner for the month of March.

Kathryn, along with her family, are all regular parkrunners and volunteers. The 11 year old achieved 3 Pbs in the month of March alone reducing her time by just under 2 mins and in her 12 runs since she started with parkrun 50% of them has resulted in new PBs. The determination of the youngest never goes unnoticed and the sheer elation she exhibits in her eyes and face after she finishes makes this runner truly deserving of pair of brand new trainers.

As always we'd like to thank Sweatshop for their generosity, the prize is a new pair of trainers, to be fitted at a local sweatshop or ordered online if she can't make it.

The winner is chosen by the event directors or members of the committee designated by them. The successful candidates are often chosen for their perseverance, number of PBs in one month, total number of runs and improvement overall. However, we can award the prize for other reasons at our discretion. If you know someone who has overcome adversity, personal illness or is deserving in any other way, please let us know by emailing barrowoffice@parkrun.com

Barrow parkrun is cancelled today due to unsafe conditions. We have to put the safety of our runners first and we can't guarantee that. Stay home and keep warm everybody! See you next week for the purple parkrun and dfyb (don't forget your brrrrrr-code).

The morning started with the presentation of the ‘converted’ 50th parkrun t-shirts to Mike Cook, Karen Magio-Poyntz and Sarah Grisdale, we look forward to seeing you running around the park proudly wearing your t-shirts, if all the runners who have been lucky enough to get their 50th and 10th t-shirt could wear them next week we would like a group photo, thank you.

The weather stayed fine for the runners who dared to conquer the challenging ‘undulating’ course, it is lovely to see that many people at Barrow park on a Saturday morning, well done to everybody.

Today there were tourists visiting our course from Poole we hope you enjoyed your visit to our park and look forward to seeing you again.

This week there were 72 runners, of whom 14 were first timers and 23 recorded new Personal Bests. Representatives of 7 different athletics clubs took part.

Men's placings:
David Harker (SM35-39) (Unattached) was first over the line in 19:28

Clayton Noble (VM45-49) (Unattached) was second over the line in 19:37

Andy Young (SM25-29) (Unattached) was third over the line in 19:42.

Current standing in the Men's annual points competition:

Philip Horrocks (Hoad Hill Harriers) 1770 pts.

Ian Jones (Walney Wind Cheetahs) 1655 pts.

Ian Crook (Unattached) 1647 pts.

Women's placings:

Karen Ann Maggio-Poyntz (VW40-44) of Walney Wind Cheetahs, was first (12th overall) over the line in 21:47

Sarah Grisdale (SW30-34) (Unattached) was second (14th overall) over the line in 22:22

Leanne Jackson (SW30-34) (Unattached) was third (16th overall) over the line in 22:57.

Current standing in the Women's annual points competition:

Karen Ann Maggio-Poyntz (Walney Wind Cheetahs) 1889 pts.

Leanne Jackson (Unattached) 1846 pts.

Sarah Grisdale (Unattached) 1780 pts.

Barrow parkrun is run by volunteers, so if you are unable to run due to injury , or a heavy night out the night before, or would like to volunteer please email BarrowHelpers@parkrun.com, with the date and role you would like, there are many different roles to be filled which are all easy to do, please help if you can.

We are pleased to announce Leanne Jackson as the Sweatshop Prize Winner for the month of December.

Leanne has brought down her PB significantly over the time she has been running at Barrow and continued this in December, Leanne is now becoming a regular at Barrow both in running and volunteering and a friendly member of our Barrow parkrun family.

As always we'd like to thank Sweatshop for their generosity, the prize is a new pair of trainers, to be fitted at a local sweatshop or ordered online if she can't make it.

The winner is chosen by the event directors or members of the committee designated by them. The successful candidates are often chosen for their perseverance, number of PBs in one month, total number of runs and improvement overall. However, we can award the prize for other reasons at our discretion. If you know someone who has overcome adversity, personal illness or is deserving in any other way, please let us know by emailing barrowoffice@parkrun.com

We are pleased to announce Peter Jackson as the Sweatshop Prize Winner for the month of November.

Peter put in a great month of running and continued to chip away at his PB, Peter is now becoming a regular at Barrow and a friendly member of our Barrow parkrun family.

As always we'd like to thank Sweatshop for their generosity, the prize is a new pair of trainers, to be fitted at a local sweatshop or ordered online if he can't make it.

The winner is chosen by the event directors or members of the committee designated by them. The successful candidates are often chosen for their perseverance, number of PBs in one month, total number of runs and improvement overall. However, we can award the prize for other reasons at our discretion. If you know someone who has overcome adversity, personal illness or is deserving in any other way, please let us know by emailing barrowoffice@parkrun.com